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Optimizing Databricks Workloads

Optimizing Databricks Workloads

By : Anirudh Kala, Bhatnagar, Sarbahi
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Optimizing Databricks Workloads

Optimizing Databricks Workloads

4.1 (13)
By: Anirudh Kala, Bhatnagar, Sarbahi

Overview of this book

Databricks is an industry-leading, cloud-based platform for data analytics, data science, and data engineering supporting thousands of organizations across the world in their data journey. It is a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based big data analytics platform for data science and data engineering in the cloud. In Optimizing Databricks Workloads, you will get started with a brief introduction to Azure Databricks and quickly begin to understand the important optimization techniques. The book covers how to select the optimal Spark cluster configuration for running big data processing and workloads in Databricks, some very useful optimization techniques for Spark DataFrames, best practices for optimizing Delta Lake, and techniques to optimize Spark jobs through Spark core. It contains an opportunity to learn about some of the real-world scenarios where optimizing workloads in Databricks has helped organizations increase performance and save costs across various domains. By the end of this book, you will be prepared with the necessary toolkit to speed up your Spark jobs and process your data more efficiently.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Azure Databricks
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Section 2: Optimization Techniques
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Section 3: Real-World Scenarios

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Discovering Databricks, will help you learn the fundamentals of Spark and all the different features of the Databricks platform and workspace.

Chapter 2, Batch and Real-Time Processing in Databricks, will help you learn about the SQL/DataFrame API for processing batch loads and the Streaming API for processing real-time data streams.

Chapter 3, Learning about Machine Learning and Graph Processing in Databricks, will help you get an introduction to machine learning on big data using SparkML and the Spark Graph Processing API.

Chapter 4, Managing Spark Clusters, will help you learn to select the optimal Spark cluster configurations for running big data processing and workloads in Databricks.

Chapter 5, Big Data Analytics, will help you learn some very useful optimization techniques for Spark DataFrames.

Chapter 6, Databricks Delta Lake, will help you learn the best practices for optimizing Delta Lake workloads in Databricks.

Chapter 7, Spark Core, will help you learn techniques to optimize Spark jobs through a true understanding of Spark core.

Chapter 8, Case Studies, will look at a number of real-world case studies where Databricks played a crucial role in an organization's data journey. We will also learn how Databricks is helping drive innovation across various industries around the world.

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